地道美語聽力播客957：鬧鐘和廚房定時器

拉貴莎：袋子里裝的什么?

Yun: Three alarm clocks and a kitchen timer.

云：鬧鐘和廚房定時器。

Laquisha: What are they for?

拉貴莎：用那干什么?

Yun: I have a very important interview tomorrow morning and these will help me prepare for it.

云：我明天早上有一個重要的面試，這是提醒我別忘了做準備。

Laquisha: How?

拉貴莎：怎么提醒?

Yun: The timer will help me time my responses to common interview questions so I don’t run off at the mouth. See? Instead of the stopwatch function, I use the countdown function so I’ll know when to wrap up.

云：定時器可以幫我在回答面試問題時定時，那樣我就不會口若懸河說個不停了。明白嗎?我沒有用秒表，我用的它的倒計時功能，這樣我就知道什么時候該結束了。

Laquisha: And the alarm clocks?

拉貴莎：鬧鐘呢?

Yun: I have a habit of pressing the snooze button after an alarm goes off. I’ve tried different kinds of alarms: ones that buzz, ones that beep, ones that vibrate, and ones that use a ringtone. But I still fall back to sleep.

云：我有一個習慣，就是鬧鐘響了之后，就按小睡催醒按鈕。我試過不同的鬧鐘鈴聲：嗡嗡的， 嗶嗶的，震動的還有鈴聲的。但是我最后還是去睡覺了。

Laquisha: And what do you plan to do with three alarm clocks?

拉貴莎：你怎么用著三個鬧鐘?

Yun: I plan to set the alarms one minute apart and put them around my bedroom. By the time I turn them all off, I should be awake.

云：我想的他們都設成間隔一分鐘的，然后放在我房間的不同地方。到時候，我要是把鬧鐘都按掉了，我也就該醒了。

Laquisha: And if not?

拉貴莎：要是沒醒呢?

Yun: Then maybe I should be applying for jobs as a mattress tester.

云：那可能我就該申請那些床墊檢測員這樣的工作了。